Talk show queen Oprah gets royal help on OWN channel talk show diva oprah winfrey launched her own cable network saturday , unveiling a packed program line-up featuring celebrity hosts such as british duchess sarah ferguson and country singer shania twain . related articles 9 >>

Estonia officially adopts single European currency estonia on saturday officially adopted the euro , the single european currency , becoming the 17th member of the eurozone t after the bell rang for the new year of 2011 , estonian premier andrus ansip , in a symbolic move , withdrew the baltic country's first euro note from an atm in the capital city t estonia , a country of some 1.3354 million people and poor in natural resources , declared independence from the former soviet union in 1991 t from then on , successive estonia governments had .. . related articles 8 >>

News Analysis: Bumpy road ahead for euro in the shadow of the sovereign debt crisis , the eurozone will welcome estonia was its 17th member on saturday t however , the addition does not dispel concerns for the future of the euro , which is in great trouble caused by the greek debt crisis t many see a bumpy road ahead for the single currency in its second decade after coming into being on jan t 1 , 1999 t volatile 2010 at the end of 2009 , a debt crisis hit greece immediately after the global financial upheaval t th .. . related articles 8 >>

DIPLOMACY: Obama sidesteps Congress to appoint new Syria ambassador from vacation in hawaii , president obama has used his recess appointment power to fill six administration posts , some controversial , including naming washington attornesday james cole as deputy attorney general and robert ford as u.s t ambassador to syria t t . related articles 8 >>

WikiLeaks: Syria Encouraged Anti-Cartody on Protest washington (reuters) - the u.s t embassy including london was a target of a group of men arrested last week in britain and charged with conspiracy to cause explosions and preparing acts of terrorism , the u.s t state department said on monday . related articles 25 >>

Jail for baby sellers a court found binayak sen , a doctor accused of aiding india's maoists , guilty of sedition and other crimes and sentenced him to life in prison t the decision is likely to inflame criticism from activists that his human rights have been overlooked in a campaign to quash an insurgency . related articles 8 >>

A call for justice for Armenian journalist raipur , india (reuters) - an indian court sentenced a doctor accused of links with maoist rebels to life in prisonment on friday , a high-profile case involving appeals by nobel laureates for the world's biggest democracy to uphold human rights . related articles 8 >>

Murkowski's certified as winner of Alaska Senate race tea party favourite sought to be declared winner of alaska's us senate election ahead of lisa murkowski , a write-in candidatea federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by tea party favourite republican joe miller , who sought to be declared winner of alaska's us senate election t the court has cleared the way for republican lisa murkowski to be recognised as the winner t she would be the first person since 1954 to win a place on the senate as a write-in candidate , one whose name does not appear on the ballot but for whom people vote by writing their name in t ultra-conservative miller wanted the result held to a strict reading of the law , where ballots with misspellings , extra words or stray marks should not count t he could still appeal.us politicsunited statesguardian.co.uk related articles 6 >>